The $100K “Build on Redis” Hackathon Winners Announced!

Developers are at the core of what makes Redis one of the most popular and most loved databases. This year at RedisConf 21, we hosted the “Build on Redis” Hackathon, our largest one to date! Today, we are thrilled to announce the winners of the $100K in prizes! 

At the Hackathon, participants explored a wide range of possibilities within the Redis portfolio, leveraging the advanced capabilities of our real-time data platform. Specifically, we encouraged them to explore the ecosystem of modules such as RediSearch (4x–100x times faster than the market leader), RedisJSON (10x faster), and so on. We were eager to see what they came up with and boy, did they deliver! 

The below pie chart shows the distribution of different modules the winners used to build their apps. 

• The top-three modules used are: RedisJSON (34.9%), RediSearch (21.7%), and RedisGraph (13.3%). 
• About 60% of the winners used multiple modules to implement complex use cases which wouldn’t be that simple in any other database.

In our estimation, virtually all the teams spent anywhere between two to four weeks building these projects. They went above and beyond to build really useful and interesting apps that amazed all of our judges. Don’t take our word for it, just watch the video, look at the code, or look at the in-depth documentation! 

It’s truly humbling to see how passionate the Redis community is and how much time and effort they put into building these apps.  

Congratulations to all the winners! Your check is in the mail!

Here are a few quotes from the winners: 

“I had worked with Redis as a cache before, I had no idea you could do so much more with it! It’s easy to use and it’s FAST.”—Niek Candaele, Software Engineer, Stampix (Project: Feature Creep)

“It was a lot of fun learning all the new features of Redis while participating in the hackathon! It’s so much more than just a cache now.”—Tinco Andringa, Lead Engineer, AeroScan (Project: Topscorio)

“The hackathon was an awesome opportunity to learn more about Redis, notably the powerful modules I haven’t used before. Building my first ever graph database was easy using Redis, its documentation and its client libraries were great.”—Mitch Ward, Sr. Engineer, Datadog (Project: NYC Bike) 

“The hackathon was so much fun and I learned a lot. Thanks, Redis!”—Matteus Hemström, Software Engineer (Project: Pizza Tribes)

“Redis and Redis’ ecosystem has a lot of offer for data scientists and engineers taking their ideas into production.“—Dr. Alexander Mikhalev, Tech Lead, National Building Society (Project: The Patterns)

$10,000 Platinum Prize Winners

Team Lead	Project name	YouTube
Dustin Wilson	HSL Transit Tracking: This app uses Redis as a backend for real-time tracking of vehicles in the Helsinki metro system.	Video
Niek Candaele	Feature Creep:  An application to manage squad health checks, which is a type of agile meeting.	Video
Dr. Alexander Mikhalev	The Pattern: Machine Learning Natural Language Processing meets VR/AR: Help find relevant knowledge using Artificial Intelligence and novel UX elements, all powered by Redis—new generation real-time data fabric turned into knowledge fabric.	Video
Piyush Jain	Dronification of Crop-insurance Powered by Drone, Redis Modules, and Azure Cloud technologies:  An application that enables crop insurance companies to generate insurance policies and claim settlements.	Video
Florian Dejonckheere	Code Red: A task management app using graphs to represent tasks and resources.	Video

$5,000 Diamond Prize Winners

$2,000 Gold Prize Winners

$1,000 Silver Prize Winners

$500 Bronze Prize Winners